Trans-Pacific Radio just published a podcast which reviews the 2008 baseball season all the way through the Japan Series which was eventually won by the Saitama Seibu Lions. Click here to listen to the podcast.
Japanese baseball reporter and insider, Wayne Graczyk, posted an interesting article about the fall of the Tokyo and Yokohama clubs over the last several seasons. He compares them unfavorably to the state of affairs in the 80′s and says that they are two of the “worst franchises in Japanese pro baseball, in terms of both [...]
With the regular season now entering it’s final month, I’d thought I’d take a look at how the Yakult lineup of the starting eight position players has evolved since opening day. So first, lets take a look at the batting order which started against the Giants on opening day, Friday March 28th 2008: 1 Keizo [...]
“A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings” (former MLB pitcher, Earl Wilson). That’s for damn sure. And the heart attack-inducing portion of the roster has tended to be the bullpen over the past five years. I have always been “interested” to see if our relievers could hold on to the [...]
Well, this year’s Interleague schedule, which pitted Yakult against the boys from the (stronger) Pacific League for a month or so, is now over. So how did we fare? Erm, not so well. The Swallows finished 9th out of the NPB’s 12 teams. The PL teams as a whole beat the CL teams 73 games [...]
